Owen Flanagan

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Owen Flanagan (* 1949 ) is an American philosopher and has been a professor of philosophy and neuroscience at Duke University since 1993 . Flanagan's main area of ​​work is the philosophy of the mind, and in particular the question of the self . In the context of this work he also includes Buddhist and Hindu conceptions, which u. a. led to an engagement at the Mind and Life Institute . With regard to the general theory of consciousness , Flanagan takes a naturalistic position, meaning that mental phenomena can be explained within the framework of a materialistic conception.

Flanagan has also worked on ethics . From 1993 to 1994 Flanagan was President of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology .

Works

  • The Science of the Mind , Mass., MIT Press, 1984
  • Varieties of Moral Personality: Ethics and Psychological Realism , Harvard, Harvard University Press, 1991
  • Consciousness Reconsidered , Mass., MIT Press, 1992
  • Self Expressions: Mind, Morals, and the Meaning of Life , Oxford University Press, 1996
  • Dreaming Souls: Sleep, Dreams, and the Evolution of the Conscious Mind , Oxford, Oxford University, 1999
  • The Bodhisattva's Brain - Buddhism Naturalized , Cambridge, Mass., The MIT Press, 2011, ISBN 9780262525206

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SURNAME Flanagan, Owen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH 1949